• It was easy for Mr. Lloyd George to explain
that the Govern- ment, in defending the Straits, were only carrying out the policy agreed by the Allies long ago and that they had been impartial as between Greeks and Turks. Quite recently no doubt the balance has been held, but that does not alter the fact that for a long time Mr. Lloyd George egged OD the Greeks in their mad adventure and allowed them to use the Straits. Mr. Lloyd George's statement that the Government wanted the League of Nations to be guardian of the freedom of the Straits was perhaps a " secret " when it was told to the Labour members. But what we should much have preferred would have been some satisfactory explanation of the Government's amazing act in rushing out their flaming manifesto without , consulting France. Of this there was nothing—perhaps because there was nothing to say.
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